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5'10" John Jordan Unleashes A Pair Of Nasty Dunks To Win D-League Dunk Contest
John Jordan, who’s only an inch taller than Isaiah Thomas, is currently playing for the Toronto Raptors D-League affiliate. The Texas A&M-Corpus Christi alumnus took part in the D-League’s dunk contest this afternoon and brought the house down with two of the best dunks I’ve seen someone under 6'0" ...
Report: Panthers DE Kony Ealy Sued For Alleged Puppy Fraud
The Boerboel, a.k.a the South African Mastiff, is one of the biggest dog breeds in the world. Adults can top 200 pounds, and they were bred to guard farms and diamond mines down in South Africa. Look at this huge pup. His head’s the size of a dang Mini Cooper....
High School Ref Says Hockey Dad Beat Him Up After He Ejected His Son And Wife
Last weekend, Howell High School and Manalapan High School played to a 1-1 tie in boys hockey at Howell Ice World. The game got wild in the third period when a Howell player was given a ten minute penalty for cursing at referee Dave Brown. There was only five minutes left in the game, so this essent...
John Calipari Ejected In Under Three Minutes Against South Carolina
The #22 Kentucky Wildcats are on the road down in South Carolina this morning, and it took John Calipari mere minutes to get all riled up at officials and get himself tossed. Weirdly, it was after a foul was called against the Gamecocks....
Mark Wahlberg From <i>Ted 2</i> Misses A Hole-In-One At Pebble Beach By Inches
Mark Wahlberg, famous for such movies as Ted and Ted 2, is, it turns out, a real damn good golfer. Look at the curve on this bad boy....
An Injured Chicharito Is Truthering Bundesliga Highlights
Javier Hernández is tearing up the Bundesliga in his first campaign with Bayer Leverkusen. The Mexican striker is fourth in the league with 13 goals, and first among non-Dortmund/Bayern players. Unfortunately, he’s now going to miss a few weeks after he tore a muscle in his ass (or his Gesäßmuskel, ...
The Sixers Realize They're A Big Joke, Are Now Maybe Trying To Fix That
The Philadelphia 76ers, those smirking pioneers of a remarkably misguided, anti-fun, actuarial, game theory-ass approach to NBA basketball, are now starting to realize that you can’t exactly build a winning basketball team while ignoring, well, the basketball. Back in December, the NBA more or less ...
Mets Pitcher Jenrry Mejia Becomes First Player To Receive Lifetime Ban For PED Use
Jenrry Mejia really likes taking steroids. He was suspended by MLB for 80 games when he tested positive for stanozolol last April, and was hit with a 162-game suspension three months later when he tested positive for stanozolol and boldenone. Today brings news that Mejia failed a third test, this ti...
Texas AG: Baylor Cops Can Withhold Five Reports Related To Sexual Assaults
As part of her investigation into how Baylor didn’t fully investigate reports of sexual violence involving football players, ESPN’s Paula Lavgine requested reports from Baylor police. The department refused to release any and their refusal was then forwarded to the Attorney General’s Office in Texas...
Idiot Hockey Fan Dangles From Rafters, Falls On Woman
A fan hung from the rafters at last week’s USA Hockey Pond Hockey National Championships in Wisconsin. His arm strength failed him, and he fell on a woman....
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<i>Kansas City Star</i> Baseball Writer Publishes Same Column He Wrote A Year Ago [UPDATE]
Just what the hell is this?...
Wow, So This FIFA Exec Was An Even Bigger Corrupt Sleazeball Than We Thought, Huh?
When Jérôme Valcke—formerly Sepp Blatter’s righthand man as FIFA secretary general—was suspended and investigated after documents tying him to a shady World Cup ticket reselling racket came out, we all thought we were dealing with your run-of-the-mill venal FIFA greaseball. Now that FIFA has conclud...
Marquette Fan Makes Good On Promise To Pay Kris Dunn $10 To Miss A Free Throw
On the grand spectrum of things to yell at an athlete, “I will literally give you $10 if you miss this shot” falls squarely on the funny side. The only way to make that heckle even better is to follow through on the promise, which is exactly what Marquette fan Jamey Schilling did:...
Alex Ovechkin Had A Hat Trick In One Period
The Washington Capitals are the first NHL team to get 40 wins this season, after a 4-3 win over the slumping Minnesota Wild Thursday night. Alex Ovechkin was the reason why....
Umpire Awards Point To Caroline Wozniacki's Opponent For No Reason
Dominika Cibulkova knocked Caroline Wozniacki out of the St. Petersburg WTA tournament yesterday in a match that featured one of the most baffling decisions made by a chair umpire we’ve seen in a long time....
Cleveland Radio Dummy Cries Censorship
When the Buffalo Bills made Kathryn Smith a full-time coach in January, Cleveland sports radio host Kevin Kiley did not like the hiring. “She couldn’t possibly be qualified to the same level that a man could be qualified to do that,” Kiley said on his Jan. 21 show on 92.3 The Fan. Thursday night, Ki...
Players Keep Complaining About Maryland's Under Armour Balls
Here’s a stupid fact about college basketball: The million-dollar sponsorship deals that schools sign with various apparel companies has created a sport in which there is no universal game ball. Nike schools use Nike balls, Adidas schools use Adidas balls, and so on....
Lamar Odom Makes First Appearance After Overdose, At Kanye West's Fashion Show
Lamar Odom looks to be in remarkably good shape, considering no one knew if he’d survive in the immediate aftermath of an October drug overdose which put him in a coma for four days. Yesterday was his first public appearance since his hospitalization, showing up with wife Khloe Kardashian and her fa...
Kevin Durant Breaks Down While Talking About The Death Of Monty Williams's Wife
The Oklahoma City Thunder played their first game since the Wednesday death of Ingrid Williams, wife of Thunder assistant and former Pelicans head coach Monty Williams, following a car crash. As fate would have it, the Pelicans were in town. All the better for Williams’s former players to drop by....
Give Me An NBA One-On-One Tournament During The Boring, Low Energy All-Star Weekend, Or Give Me Death
The NBA’s All-Star Weekend isn’t very interesting anymore. Of the weekend’s three marquee events, only the Three-Point Contest is compelling. Creativity was drained from the Slam Dunk Contest years ago, and the All-Star Game is played with little more effort than I exert brushing my teeth. But there...